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By Kait Walsh Published: May 5, 2017, 6:12 pm SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – A group of eighth graders in Springfield were in court on Friday, but they weren’t in trouble. 22News went along with them for a tour of the Hampden County Hall of Justice. “To learn in a practical way as opposed to an abstract, […]

By Jack Flynn, The Republican on May 02, 2017 at 8:21 AM SPRINGFIELD – A Chicopee man arrested after a shooting early Sunday in Springfield’s entertainment district is being held on $100,000 bail. Lamiek White, 23, pleaded not guilty Monday in Springfield District Court to five charges, including assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, […]

4.28.17 HOLYOKE – Jose Espada and Sammy Lozada, seated in blue behind glass in background, are arraigned on murder charges Friday in Holyoke District Court. Espada, Lozada and Madeline Garcia were ordered held without right to bail after pleading not guilty to murder, armed home invasion and assault and battery. Jack Flynn By Patrick Johnson […]

By: Buffy Spencer, The Republican on April 12, 2017 SPRINGFIELD — Michael Rodriguez on Wednesday was found guilty of second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of Julian Cartie in 2009 in Springfield. Hampden Superior Court Judge John A. Agostini set sentencing for April 19, when Cartie’s family members and friends — many of whom have […]

By Buffy Spencer, The Republican on April 19, 2017 at 4:55 PM SPRINGFIELD — Parkpoom Seesangrit was sentenced Tuesday to six to eight years in state prison by Hampden Superior Court Judge Constance M. Sweeney. Seesangrit, 27, had been found guilty of rape by Sweeney last week for a May 2014 crime at the East […]

By Buffy Spencer, The Republican on April 17, 2017 at 1:33 PM SPRINGFIELD — Hundreds of young people chose to spend their Patriots’ Day holiday Monday at the second annual Hoop Up Springfield at American International College’s Butova Gymnasium. Hampden District Attorney Anthony Gulluni sponsored the event, which included a basketball tournament, an AIC college tour, […]

By; Greg Saulmon, Patrick Johnson The Republican, on April 14, 2017 HOLYOKE – Holyoke Police and the Hampden District Attorney on Friday began releasing the names and charges for the more than a dozen suspects arrested as part of a narcotics raid. The names of 16 men and woman and the charges against them were […]

By Patrick Johnson, The Republican April 11, 2017 A forensic artist drawing of the victim in a 1971 Jane Doe case from Oregon. New testing shows the woman may have spent time in the Northeast. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children announced Tuesday that new testing on the remains of an unidentified […]

Maurice Bailey, 24, of Springfield (Springfield Police Department) by Jack Flynn, The Republican on April 11, 2017 SPRINGFIELD — Before being taken into custody on a gun possession charge Sunday, Maurice Bailey offered something of a warning to the arresting officers, according to the police report. “You need to be able to prove that gun […]

By Buffy Spencer | bspencer@repub.com on April 07, 2017 at 3:03 PM -SPRINGFIELD- Hampden Superior Court Judge Edward J. McDonough on Thursday sentenced a city man to three years in state prison for his part in a heroin trafficking operation. Fausto Mejia, 49, had been charged with heroin trafficking in the amount of over […]